Progress Report

Ok!  Doily progress report! I’m in the middle of adding the “afterthought” white picot trim to the previous band of turquoise.  It’s going pretty smoothly.  As long as this doesn’t somehow mess up the blocking by making that round too tight, that should be fine. The next step is choosing pretty rose and leaf patterns.  […]

Doily Progress (???)

I did run out of the light aqua thread for the current doily-in-progress.  It was so close, but there simply wasn’t enough yardage, so I ripped out that round and started again with a different thread– Aunt Lydia’s in “Aqua”. The two aquas are not quite the same, but they’re not glaringly different, either.  If […]

Mysteryghan Finished!

The 2014 Mysteryghan/Deco’Ghan is all done.  Ends woven in– washed– dried. Photos, anyone? It’s not my favorite afghan I’ve ever crocheted (the colors…), but it’s not hideous, either (imho). Of course since it was a mystery crochet-along– and I was trying to stash-bust– some of my color choices/placements could have been better, but I don’t […]

Another Hobby?

I’ve been playing around with paints– acrylic and watercolor– off and on (mostly “off”), for the past several months.  Just for the fun of it, mind you!  No formal training, as they say.  I used to love drawing and coloring with crayons, markers, and color pencils, as a child.  I still like doodling, on occasion.  […]

No FOs!

I still don’t have any finished objects to show! Excuses: 1.  Donald was sick with a cold most of the week before last.  It always throws things a little out of kilter when one of us is sick. 2.  Now that the cool weather is finally here (after cruelly teasing us, then deserting us again), […]

This and That Crochet

The doily is going along very sloooowly.  I think it’ll be pretty when it’s done, though.  :o) Should I admit that I’ve already made a mistake?  There are some rounds with long chains and lots of single crochet into those chains, and though I went to the trouble of counting and marking up my chart, […]

Frosting Cowl Finished!

Last week, I decided to call the Frosting Cowl finished. (And now I’m going to blather on about it for paragraphs.  Apologies.) I weighed my leftovers (from two balls, because there was a knot near the end of one, so I went ahead and joined the next ball early), and it turns out I used […]